The Beatific Vision: What Dante Sees at the End of Paradiso and Why It Matters
I spent months reading Paradiso without understanding where the poem was actually going. Canto after canto of Dante ascending through spheres of light, meeting saints and theologians—it felt magnificent, but untethered. Then I grasped the Beatific Vision, and everything clicked. The entire Divine Comedy, all three canticles, exists as a single arrow pointing toward this … Read more